• By default, all papyri are shown. You can start a search by filtering the database using the filters (below).
  • If your search returns 0 papyri, it means that the parameters you have selected cannot be combined. Try removing one of them!
  • It is recommended to filter one parameter at a time (e.g. first select one or more document type, and later refine your search by selecting a subtype).

  • The keyword search is a full-text search of our metadata. It includes the papyrus title, identifiers (such as Trismegistos number), subjects and place names.
  • The subjects are derived from HGV subjects, which you can see in papyri.info among the HGV metadata, under the heading 'Subjects'. They are available both in German (simplified) and in English.

  • The types and subtypes of documents are further described in the Typology.

Provenance and date are from the HGV data on papyri.info, encoded in EpiDoc XML.

  • The Provenance is the Nome when available, or a more precise place name depending on the precision of the HGV metadata.
    Technical note: the Nome is usually encoded with a <provenance> element. However, not all papyri have this precise encoding. When there is no <provenance> element, the Nome may also be extracted from <origPlace>, if it is present in parenthesis. If the Nome cannot be safely deduced, then the content of <origPlace> is used.
  • The Date can be filtered by selecting a range of centuries, within the corpus bounds (Ptolemaic and Roman period). The search is loose, meaning that the date range of a document must overlap with the selected range. Papyri that have an incomplete range, i.e. only one terminus post or ante quem, are given a range of 50 years before/after their terminus.
    When there are multiple datations for one papyrus, we consider only the first one. For a precise datation, please check HGV.